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21.02.2013
Ever more bacteria are developing resistance to antibiotics, and the supply of new drugs against dangerous microbes is failing to keep pace. A new EU research consortium is hoping to change this state of affairs.
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04.10.2012
The new Fraunhofer Center for Chemical-Biotechnological Processes is now in operation in Leuna. Chancellor Angela Merkel was there for the inauguration of the €53 million flagship project.
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18.09.2012
The ERC is granting funding of €800 million to projects by young researchers. Among others, numerous German research institutions -home to 30 projects from the life sciences -can look forward to generous support.
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07.08.2012
The next stage of the BMBF's BioPharma competition has kicked off: The North German consortium Neu2 can celebrate a further €20 million in funding for the development of drugs against multiple sclerosis.
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29.06.2012
In the BMBF’s Biotechnology 2020+ strategy process, bioscientists and engineers are putting their heads together to develop the next generation of biotechnological processes. A stocktaking of the process recently took place at the 3rd annual congress in Berlin.
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19.06.2012
At the ACHEMA in Frankfurt, there was a clear trend towards bio-based industry, with a focus in particular on biorefineries. Three strategic alliances for industrial biotechnology can now look forward to multi-million-euro support.
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28.03.2012
With the assistance of federal government support strategies, industrial biotechnology is taking on an increasingly important role. This is underlined by the response to a brief parliamentary enquiry from the SPD fraction in the Bundestag.
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17.12.2011
Five top researchers in the life sciences are among the winners of the 2012 Leibniz Prize. A neurophysiologist and a systems biologist from Berlin, a biochemist in Martinsried, and two immunologists from Bonn will share the prize, worth a total of 2.5 million euros.
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23.07.2011
Every year, the Science Council appraises research buildings planned for construction at universities in Germany. Biotechnology is particularly well represented this year, making up seven of the 16 projects put forward for funding.
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15.07.2011
What will the biotechnology of the future look like? What steps in research and development will be required before this can be achieved? These are the kinds of questions being posed by the strategic process Biotechnology 2020+, which was launched by the Federal Ministry of Research in 2010. The recent second Annual Congress took a first stock of the process.
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